The 50s liberalism of this has not aged well, with its oh-so-caring-and-considerate architect hero, nagging everyone into submission, and the all-white-all-male-ness of it, the tortured masculinity of post war America, the love for the persecuted hispanic criminal.
But the central idea is so utterly utterly brilliant and Rose structures it so well.The details of the crime have been well thought out and the different Jurors very well differentiated. Rose had the idea of a lifetime and he pulled it off brilliantly.
This has a lot of big print.
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